Homo religiosus invents religious symbols, which he venerates and worships to save him from facing the finality of his death and dissolution.… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Empathising with the younger children on whom the same confidence trick was being imposed, I embarked on a crusade around the neighbourhood,… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
What I got in Sunday school ... was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“there is found a third level of religious experience, even if it is seldom found in a pure form. I will call… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I am not even an atheist so much as an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“Listen, Parfyon, a few moments ago you asked me a question, and this is my answer: the essence of religious feeling has… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, just as I believe that the Book of Scripture illumines the pathway to God, so I believe that the Book of… — Owen Gingerich Copy Share Image
It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Looking at the doctrine of Darwinism, which undergirded my atheism for so many years, it didn’t take me long to conclude that… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I feel that we should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
I kept careful record of the impact of religion on the election in my county. The religious issue permeated every meeting I… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“When a friend needs to believe in God in order to be able to face life, it feels cruel to announce your… — Louise M. Antony Copy Share Image
“The Oracle pursued a logical course of confuting theism, and leaving 'a-theism' the negative result. It did not, in the absurd terms… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...properly a theory about knowledge, not about religion. A theist and a Christian may be an agnostic; an atheist may not be… — Robert Flint Copy Share Image
The very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history's most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions,… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11, 2001, followed by the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit that the… — James Randi Copy Share Image
“Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving.… — Thomas Edison Copy Share Image
“Countries with a high percentage of nonbelievers are among the freest, most stable, best-educated, and healthiest nations on earth. When nations are… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
You, my Brown Guard, will regard it as a matter of course that this German people should go only by the way… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“If history has shown anything, it is that where there is a God, there is an institution trying to lock up that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“But I've still better things about children. I've collected a great, great deal about Russian children, Alyosha. There was a little girl… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
“To deny the existence of God would be to close your eyes to the beauty around you, to close your ears to… — J.E.B. Spredemann Copy Share Image
What do you conceive God to be like? Some would say to believe at all in a personal God requires a giant… — George Sweeting Copy Share Image
I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease;… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency.… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
